Here are some considerations:
- It is legal to watch movies for free on TV, as long as you accept to be brainwashed by advertising.
- It is legal to lend your DVD to your friend and it's legal for him to give it to his friend and his friend and so on.
- It is legal to bring 90 friends to your house and watch the movie together. Each of them can then borrow the DVD and invite 90 of their friends...
- Movies drop in value considerably after being watched once. It's a very poor investment.
Since obviously demand for free material exists, it means that:
- there are no alternative legal channels with such diversity and simplicity of use or they have DRM or other restrictions (proprietary formats), which means that you actually rent, not buy.
- the prices demanded are too high, especially for movies which you stop halfway through because they suck (a vast majority)
As a developer, I do not agree with using commercial software for free and so I never download anything and always buy my software.
thepiratebay is the largest distributed backup of cinematography and music in the world. What happens to all these movies if something happens to the Internet (lots of things can make Internet unusable or disconnect parts of the world from it) ?
What if the global economy collapses, WW3 starts and Internet companies as well as movie studios go belly up ?
Where would all these creations be ? Who would have the copies if there were no torrent sites like piratebay ?
But it would be possible to re-create thepiratebay and republish all those movies and music from their hard-drives back to the Internet.
> It is legal to bring 90 friends to your house and watch the movie together.
Technically it is not legal to do this. At that point, you're putting on a "public performance", and they may indeed sue you.
Where is the line at which "having a few friends over to watch the game" a public performance? It's up to the NFL's lawyers and the corrupt judges that decades of copyright cartel lobbyists have schmoozed.
Here are some considerations: - It is legal to watch movies for free on TV, as long as you accept to be brainwashed by advertising. - It is legal to lend your DVD to your friend and it's legal for him to give it to his friend and his friend and so on. - It is legal to bring 90 friends to your house and watch the movie together. Each of them can then borrow the DVD and invite 90 of their friends... - Movies drop in value considerably after being watched once. It's a very poor investment.
Since obviously demand for free material exists, it means that: - there are no alternative legal channels with such diversity and simplicity of use or they have DRM or other restrictions (proprietary formats), which means that you actually rent, not buy.
- the prices demanded are too high, especially for movies which you stop halfway through because they suck (a vast majority)
As a developer, I do not agree with using commercial software for free and so I never download anything and always buy my software.
thepiratebay is the largest distributed backup of cinematography and music in the world. What happens to all these movies if something happens to the Internet (lots of things can make Internet unusable or disconnect parts of the world from it) ? What if the global economy collapses, WW3 starts and Internet companies as well as movie studios go belly up ? Where would all these creations be ? Who would have the copies if there were no torrent sites like piratebay ? But it would be possible to re-create thepiratebay and republish all those movies and music from their hard-drives back to the Internet.